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My buddy dives and I hate it, I purchased him a belt and weights, we have a deal I will buy him a new set anytime he needs them. If he ever gets in trouble I dont want him to hesitate cutting the weight lose, just let that shit go and I will gladly give him my cc to buy a new set.

I got a PVW 12 and 20, both I would say are just OK, the 20 last year was at least good.

I got WLW as well but it has yet to be opened, glad you like it, has got me excited.

I also got a Saz, while I have tried it, I was so drunk might as well have been drinking distilled cat piss, I have no recollection of what it tasted like, I think it was good, but I was dry humping my brothers leg so who knows.

I actually did better with the beer hunt this year, and thats fine. I have spent half as much cash this year as I did last year.

This is pretty much off topic but it is a story a few people seem to enjoy and one that I love telling.

in 1993 I was part of a home-brew club in Boulder CO, they decided to put on a competition of sorts where you drew a style from a hat and had to brew it to be judged.
I drew Belgium Wheat and went to work trying to put a creative spin on my brew, what I came up with was probably the most vile beer ever brewed, completely un-drinkable.

With no time for a restart I bottled it up and delivered it with a note apologizing for the disaster my peers were going to swish around in their mouths.

I was way young (To young to legally drink) so I was given some pointers and constructive criticism and sent on my way.

A Week later I got a call and was invited to a competition in Fort Collins, It was last minute and I was desperate to hang around with the guy that invited me, so I decided I would bring a Porter I had made months earlier and see where it got me. Sadly as I went to label the Porter I dropped it.

With no options I grabbed the last 2 bombers of the Wheat from Hell and started to brain storm, the HomeBrew world was small so I could not bring a Beer that had already been tried and spit out by the very people I was trying to impress.

With few options I decided to try making a Russ Beer, so I whipped up some Lemonade and eye balled out a mixture into a 1 gallon milk jug, needing to get the temp down to taste it I stuck the jug in the freezer where a promptly forgot about it until the following day.

Being the resourceful young man I was I did not panic, I simply switched the idea to an EisRuss, grabbed a drill and dirty drill bit, drilled into the ice and got out almost a full 12 ounces, after a quick sample I put it in a seltzer bottle and zapped it for carbonation, bottled it, capped it, and drove it to Fort Collins.

There was no category for EisRuss because the concept is incredibly stupid and juvenile, however they invented a quick category out of sympathy.

Being the only Russ or Ice beer in the comp, I was awarded first prize in the made up category, and got my first ever award in Beer (There would be exactly zero others to date).

However, impressed by my "Creativity" a guy by the name of Sandy Jones who just so happened to own HC Berger asked if I would like to interview to come work at his brewery.

I drove back out to Fort Collins to meet Sandy the following Week, however on my way there I got lost and had to stop for directions, I found a small brewery in an old Silo and went in to ask directions, while there a guy named Tim suggested I fill out an app for delivery driver, so I did and interviewed on the spot, during the interview I retold the story, everyone got a big kick out of it and we started talking Beer and my experience. Eventually I got the job and was a delivery driver for a Week before it was discovered that I had no sense of direction and would be better suited as a Brewer.

And that is the story of SheetWheet and how it became Eik's EisRuss, and how I dumbfucked my way into brewing for Doug Odell.

TL:DR Made a Wheat Beer and it sucked, mixed it with Lemonade and accidentally froze it, landed a job at Odell Brewing

Used to work for Coors, used to be able to get other employees to give me some of their share, try networking with your coworkers. You may be surprised how many people do not even come close to taking their share..

While he is certainly entitled to his opinion, and we all know too well that as by Geeks we have a reputation for being a bit pretentious.

It does bother me that a celebrity chef would have such a shit palate, and also belittle someone for being passionate about something in his industry.

While I may be a bit over the top when I try a new Beer, he is the exact same way about his political views (As he should be, its his passion and part of his travels). While I certainly would never call someone out for not liking the same Beer as me (Nor for liking Ford cars or the color blue) it is a bit upsetting that he would attack the beer nerd couture when I know if I share my political views with him he would be overbearing while telling me I was wrong.